WPA Seminar Members--
In class Tuesday, I indicated that I'd ask each of you to investigate one of the early surveys mentioned by Heckathorn or McLeod. This will take longer than I initially expected, as some of the articles and books are hard-to-find, so this task will be postponed until and if we decide on a survey as a class project. I have put in some requests to Interlibary Loan already, in any case.
The following is the assignment for tomorrow, as distributed on the detailed calendar:
Professional Development and Community: WPAs’ Collective Knowledge-Making
How do WPAs learn from each other? How do they collectively develop disciplinary knowledge? What is the relationship between learning and knowledge-development for WPAs?
As a way to help you develop some ideas for a tentative response to these questions, look at one context for WPA learning/knowledge-making: the workshop reports from the first ten years of CCCC meetings.
These workshop reports were printed in the October issue of the CCC journal every year and are available through Purdue Libraries, using J-Stor. Many of the workshop topics were repeated year after year.
Scan the reports, then choose one workshop topic and closely examine the reports from those workshops for 5 to 10 years. If the workshop continues after 10 years, does it morph?What do these reports demonstrate about the ways WPAs learn from each other? Prepare a brief discussion of the results of your examination the reports--250-300 words, or the equivalent for a mixed media presentation.
